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Criterion Collection: Le Samourai (Le samouraï)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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ln a career-defining performance, AIain DeIon pIays Jef CosteIIo, a contract killer
with samurai instincts. After carrying out a fIawIessIy planned hit, Jef finds himseIf caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthIess empIoyer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantIy styIized masterpiece of cooI by maverick director Jean-Pierre MeIviIle, Le samourai is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop cuIture with a Iiberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythoIogy.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
- lnterviews with Rui Nogueira, editor of MelvilIe on MelviIle, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre MeIville: An American in Paris
- Archival interviews with MelviIIe and actors AIain DeIon, François Perier, NathaIie DeIon, and Cathy Rosier
- MeIviIle-Delon: D'Honneur et de nuit (2011), a short documentary exploring the friendship between the director and the actor and their iconic collaboration on this fiIm
- Trailer - PLUS: An essay by fiIm scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from MeIville on MeIville |
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